Originally Posted by
eddyak
It's not an alternative history to that extent, though. It'd be one thing if the greek pantheon was somehow different from the very start, but the lostbelts are explicitly our own history that just went in a different direction. So unless the history began with "And then Zeus gave up his golden-shower-transforming, bull-dick-wielding, most-likely-rapey, virgin-banging ways to become a robot", they were mechs from the start, and that's where the weirdness is.
Alcides can go jump off a cliff for all I care about that one, although thinking about it, he'd likely be a good fit for a lostbelt where our final targets are his own gods.